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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | babble, bargain, deceive, equivocate, falsify, fib, haggle, prevaricate, quibble |
| Main Entry: | dicker |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bargain; argue about |
| Synonyms: | barter, buy and sell, chaffer, cut a deal, haggle, hammer out a deal, huckster, negotiate, palter, trade, work out a deal |
| Notes: | to bicker is to quarrel and to dicker is to haggle or bargain |
| Antonyms: | agree |
| Main Entry: | disagree |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | argue; hold differing opinion |
| Synonyms: | altercate, battle, bicker, brawl, break with, bring action, clash, contend, contest, controversialize, controvert, debate, differ, disaccord, discept, discord, dispute, dissent, divide, fall out, feud, fight, go for the jugular, haggle, have words, jump on, lay into, let have it, logomachize, object, oppose, palter, quarrel, quibble, rip, row, scrap, set to, skirmish, spar, spat, sue, take issue, take on, war, wrangle, zap |
| Antonyms: | accept, acquiesce, agree, concur, consent |
| Main Entry: | equivocate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | avoid an issue |
| Synonyms: | beat around the bush, beg the question, blow hot and cold, cavil, cloud the issue, con, cop a plea, cop out, cover up, dodge, double-talk, elude, escape, eschew, evade, falsify, fence, fib, flip-flop, fudge, give run around, hedge, hem and haw, jive, lie, mince words, palter, parry, pass the buck, prevaricate, pussyfoot, quibble, run around, shuck, shuffle, sidestep, sit on the fence, stonewall, tell white lie, tergiversate, tergiverse, waffle, weasel |
| Antonyms: | face, meet, speak on |
| Main Entry: | falsify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | alter, misrepresent |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, belie, change, color, con, contort, contradict, contravene, cook, counterfeit, deacon, deceive, deny, distort, doctor, dress up, embroider, equivocate, exaggerate, fake, fake it, fib, forge, four-flush, frame up, garble, gloss, lie, misquote, misstate, palter, pervert, phony up, prevaricate, promote, put on an act, salt, tamper with, traverse, trump up, twist, warp |
| Main Entry: | fib |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell an undetailed lie |
| Synonyms: | concoct, create fiction, equivocate, fabricate, falsify, invent, jive, make up, palter, plant, prevaricate, promote, shovel, speak with forked tongue, stretch the truth, tell a little white lie, trump up |
| Antonyms: | be honest, tell truth |
| Main Entry: | haggle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bicker, quarrel |
| Synonyms: | argue, bargain, barter, beat down, cavil, chaffer, deal, dicker, dispute, hammer out a deal, horse-trade, make a deal, palter, quibble, squabble, wrangle |
| Antonyms: | agree, comply, concur |
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell an untruth |
| Synonyms: | BS, be untruthful, bear false witness, beguile, break promise, bull*, con, concoct, deceive, delude, dissemble, dissimulate, distort, dupe*, equivocate, exaggerate, fabricate, fake, falsify, fib, forswear, frame, fudge, go back on, invent, make believe, malign, misguide, misinform, misinstruct, mislead, misrepresent, misspeak, misstate, overdraw, palter, perjure, pervert, phony, plant*, prevaricate, promote, put on*, put up a front, snow*, soft-soap, string along, victimize |
| Notes: | to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | misrepresent/misquote |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie, distort |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, angle, beard, belie, build up, cloak, color, con, confuse, cover up, disguise, distort, dress, embellish, embroider, equivocate, exaggerate, falsify, garble, give snow job, mangle, mask, miscolor, misinterpret, misreport, misstate, overdraw, overstate, palter, pervert, phony up, pirate*, prevaricate, promote, puff, skew, slant, snow*, spread it on, stretch, take out of context, throw a curve, trump up, twist, warp |
| Antonyms: | be forthright, be honest, explain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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